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Dibs Fall 2026

ENGL 80

Major American Authors

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to English majors or students with credit for any courses in 170 series. Introduction to chief American authors, with emphasis on poetry, nonnarrative prose, and short fiction of such writers as Poe, Dickinson, Emerson, Whitman, Twain, Frost, and Hemingway. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.75
n = 197 · 4 terms · ± 0.038
A range
83%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
2%
80% of those passed
D / F / W
2.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 7622W
  • 5423S
  • 4624W
  • 2624F
Enrolment by term: 22W 76, 23S 54, 24W 46, 24F 26
Peak 76 Most recent 26 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 3 · 1.5%
  • A 131 · 64.9%
  • A- 29 · 14.4%
  • B+ 16 · 7.9%
  • B 11 · 5.4%
  • B- 2 · 1.0%
  • C- 1 · 0.5%
  • D+ 1 · 0.5%
  • D 1 · 0.5%
  • F 2 · 1.0%
  • P 4 · 2.0%
  • NP 1 · 0.5%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
HYDE, CARRIE LEAH 3.85 3.86 126 2 90%
DIMURO, JOSEPH A 3.58 3.55 71 2 70%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term